Mission

MISSION

Funded by the U.S. Department of Education, the Title III Program at BMCC is a faculty development initiative to promote the integration of technology into the classrooms of all academic disciplines taught at the college.

The program began recruiting in 1999 and will continue to recruit at least ten faculty across departments per year through the fall 2003 to participate in two years of training, development of course material and classroom application. In addition, the program will develop participants as mentors to train other faculty.

Title III recruited its first cohort of twelve faculty in November 1999 to commence training in January 2000. Subsequently, another fourteen faculty joined Title III in June 2000, another eleven in June 2001 and another twelve in June 2002.

Pedagogy and course content has and will drive technology in this faculty development program, not vice versa.

The goals of Title III training are to:

Introduce participants to a variety of educational and communications technologies;

Integrate educational technology into teaching and learning in ways that serve the pedagogical and curriculum goals of faculty; and

Develop an ever-widening community of BMCC faculty who test strategies for classroom application, reflect upon and evaluate these approaches, and participate in an ongoing face-to-face and electronic dialog about the connections among pedagogy, curriculum, sound academic practice and technology.

The Title III program also conducts workshops open the larger college community. For a listing of upcoming workshops, click here.